S.E.O

Search Engine Optimization + Free Website

29.10.2007. 12:55

A free SEO Website like the ones being offered on http://web.ondapc.com are hard to come by. You can blog on blogger and hope for the best. You might also find some other free website scheme out there that puts more advertisement than content. The issue here is a really unique free website that can be used for ( personal web page, business web page, or blog). The definitive answer is with OndaPC. They have managed to make a site that is easy to use, friendly keyword urls (good SEO practice), and powerful enough to keep the rest of us content.

Many of the features included should be considered "Awesome SEO Features". One being the ability to add META content for each page. Now, many of you are saying that META no longer plays a part in search engine rankings. Well, perhaps they do and perhaps they do not. Finding meta tags is not all that hard. You search a keyword on a search engine and magically alot of pages result. If you look at the Title+description closely you should notice that they are the title and meta description text. Now, to be honest, some meta tags do not equal their corresponding descriptor text on search engines. This is the new optimized algorithm that search engines are using to derive the content of the page that has been indexed. However, on many occasions, the meta description does equal the text descriptor on search engines. This means a couple of things to us SEO experts. The meta tags are still used. This means that they are not completely done away with. As a matter of fact, not all search engines use the same algorithm, and trust me when I say that there are plenty of search engines out there, excluding the giants Yahoo, Google, and MSN.

Now, a website should always try to rank well with search engines. How? Adaptation! That is where OndaPC has come up with a decent solution. They offer you Yahoo and Google sitemaps, that are automatically updated with the content you create. Sitemaps, for all intended purposes, is still in its infancy. RSS, on the other hand, has become a defacto for websites. OndaPC includes all three to their arsenal of search engine optimization techniques. You get an RSS + SITEMAP XML for every account you create. This will save time for many.

XHTML, for all of those out there, is becoming the next generation of web content. Although, html is what it is, XHTML will prove to be a strong standard for those willing to take the time to make the transition. The free websites that are offered by OndaPC come packed with XHTML. This might not help you, but on the other hand, it just might not harm you either. Web standards are simply stated: good, great, excellent. As browsers adapt and we enter into a mobile world we will need new technologies to integrate our applications. XHTML might or might not do this. Until then, I suppose, browsers are easier to make if a "standard" is used. In other words, developers of Mozilla or Internet Explorer, are testing their browsers with standard html / xhtml ... Or are they trying to fool around with code that isnt standard. I think the latter, and that is why using a standard is correct and beneficial to all.

How many sites offer you backups. Now, you might think, why do I need a backup? Well, simply put, it is your content is it not? Yeah, big corporate sites will always offer you the sense of security, but at the same time, the keep your content as if it were their own. If you ever wanted to switch to another engine for your content, you would be forced to copy / paste all of your content. This is where OndaPC, has made it available to all new clients a site that you add content, but at the same time, you get to keep a backup... just in case.

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